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How, And Why, Did The Anglo-american World Become So Obsessed With The Private Lives And Public Character Of Its Political Leaders? Marilyn Morris Finds Answers In Eighteenth-century Britain, When A Long Tradition Of Court Intrigue And Gossip Spread Into A Much Broader And More Public Political Arena With The Growth Of Political Parties, Extra-parliamentary Political Activities, And A Partisan Print Culture. The Public{u2019}s Preoccupation With The Personal Character Of The Ruling Elite Paralleled A Growing Interest In The Interior Lives Of Individuals In Histories, Novels, And The Theater. Newspaper Reports Of The Royal Family Intensified In Intimacy And Its Members Became Moral Exemplars{u2014}most Often, Paradoxically, When They Misbehaved. Ad Hominem Attacks On Political Leaders Became Commonplace; Politicians Of All Affiliations Continued To Assess One Another{u2019}s Characters Based On Their Success And Daring With Women And Money. And Newly Popular Human-interest Journalism Promoted The Illusion That The Personal Characters Of Public Figures Could Be Read By Appearances.--provided By Publisher. The Political And The Personal -- The Politics Of Personal Character -- The Mea

Author

Marilyn Morris

Publisher

New Haven ; London: Yale University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300210477

Subjects

History, Political Science, Humanities